Magna Mater
deity earth Roman single tradition · 3
The depiction of some goddesses such as the Magna Mater (Great Mother, or Cybele) as "tower-crowned" represents their capacity to preserve the city.
↻ synthesized from 3 sources
When
- First attested
- 300 BCE
- Attested period
- -300 – 2020
- Historical notes
- Attested in Republican and Imperial eras of Rome.
Relationships
- parent of
- Jupiter
- co occurs with
- Mars Camulus, Penates, Hercules, Silvanus, Fortuna Conservatrix, Agathe Tyche, Lares Compitales, Apollo, Minerva, Lares, Vesta, genius loci, Juno, Genius, Victory, Fortuna, Attis, Isis
- manifests as
- Cybele
- allied with
- Venus Genetrix
Mentioned by
Sources
wikipedia (3)
Source passages
“The depiction of some goddesses such as the Magna Mater (Great Mother, or Cybele) as "tower-crowned" represents their capacity to preserve the city.”
#9076 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“Augustan ideology identified Magna Mater with Imperial order and Rome's religious authority throughout the empire.”
#28034 · extracted by deepseek/deepseek-chat
“The Sanctuary of Isis and Magna Mater in Roman Mogontiacum was built in the 1st century CE and remained in use until late antiquity.”
#46462 · extracted by openai/gpt-oss-120b:free